I honestly have no hard feeling about the episode. The jokes were really funny and the plot was choppy and left me feeling weird. It could have been the editing more than anything else, like Mindy wrote more and they had to cut it.

I like the part in one of her recent blogs (a few back) where she talks about the kid in the Mac/PC commercial & compares him to Krasinski’s look or something. And then lists other cute guys PC should use for a campaign.

That blog’s so funny – and I have no care for reading about what clothes she has bought.

I am looking forward to watching her because she is hilarious and incredibly intelligent. I don’t understand the apparent controversy over ‘Ben Franklin’. I thought it was a great episode. I think people might dislike that it seemed to end slightly inconclusively or the general “awkward” feel from the scenes, but I thought it was very realistic and wonderfully done. There was nothing “up” with her episode. State specific reasons of dissatisfaction instead of “gee I feel funny!!1”

I wasn’t going to get into the episode here but since you asked, Calvin…last season Jim was an identifiable guy, a young down on his luck office worker who was sort of good looking, sort of smart, but fairly ordinary. We identified with him.

This season he’s a rising young man in the firm with two beautiful women vying for his attention and Krasinski is madeup lately to look like a male model. The whole situation has gone from feeling realistic to feeling like a teenage soap opera and the Karen/Pam/Jim scenes in Ben Franklin about who likes who just furthered that feeling.

Having said all that, still looking forward to seeing Mindy on Conan. :)

I agree with you and btw thank you for replying with a well thought answer. However, though I may agree with you I still don’t understand why this episode in particular seems to be garnering the heat. Although you’re right, this probably isn’t the place to discuss it. (sorry Tanster, also sorry for multiple posts) I’ll be watching the interview with the rest of you!

DrunkBiking, I agree that he’s good looking, but really–a male model? I think that’s going a little far. There are many people who look just as good as him in normal life. Jim has tried to step it up in his appearance (physical and social) and I think it shows.

And for Mindy, I will definitely stay up to watch. =) She’s very smart and funny, unlike her character, and they’re both “amaaaazing”!